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Mohammad Abdul Malek

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Dr. Mohammad Abdul Malek is currently a Senior/Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn and a Senior Research Fellow at Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC. He has a PhD in Rural Economics awarded by the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan September 2010. He learned Rural Economics and Economics from Yamaguchi University, Japan and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh respectively. He is leading the Agricultural Economics Unit at Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC.

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The “System of Rice Intensification” (SRI), developed in Madagascar in the 1980s for liquidity-constrained smallholder farmers like those in Bangladesh, has demonstrated dramatic potential for increasing rice yields without requiring additional purchased inputs (seed, fertilizer, etc.), nor increased irrigation. But these gains, although widely documented in...